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Amazon rainforest

Neil Palmer/CIAT · CC BY-SA 2.0

29% trees around it and 518 species recorded.

51Forestyas Score

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  • trees within 3 km29%
  • wild within 10 km80%
  • species recorded518

The forest around

29% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 18%Grassland 2%Water 80%Trees 30%Grassland 4%Wetland 2%Water 57%Bare ground 0%Built-up 6%Trees 36%Grassland 7%Wetland 3%Water 30%Bare ground 0%Built-up 24%Trees 38%Grassland 9%Wetland 2%Water 28%Bare ground 1%Built-up 21%29%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km18%
  • 1–3 km30%
  • 3–6 km36%
  • 6–10 km38%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees30%
  • Grassland4%
  • Wetland2%
  • Water57%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Built-up6%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

518 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Brownbeard rice
Brownbeard riceOryza rufipogon22 recordsDaderot · CC0
Couma utilis
Couma utilisCouma utilis10 recordsCarl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), August Wilhelm Eichler (1839-1887) · Public domain
Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipesPontederia crassipes9 recordsDataBase Center for Life Science (DBCLS) · CC BY 4.0
Heliconia hirsuta
Heliconia hirsutaHeliconia hirsuta8 recordsDiego Rodriguez · CC BY 2.0
Indian heliotrope
Indian heliotropeHeliotropium indicum5 recordsUbkoumbogny · CC BY-SA 4.0
Flamevine
FlamevinePyrostegia venusta5 recordsBurkhard Mücke · CC BY-SA 4.0
Diospyros kondorDiospyros kondor22 records
Talisia cerasinaTalisia cerasina10 records
Allantoma lineataAllantoma lineata8 records
Eschweilera tenuifoliaEschweilera tenuifolia8 records
Matayba spruceanaMatayba spruceana8 records
Piparea multifloraPiparea multiflora8 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

51out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 29%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 80%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 518Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking from June to July.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan29°24°224 mm
  2. Feb28°24°236 mm
  3. Mar28°24°268 mm
  4. Apr28°24°262 mm
  5. May28°24°205 mm
  6. Jun28°24°119 mm
  7. Jul29°24°76 mm
  8. Aug31°24°50 mm
  9. Sep33°25°68 mm
  10. Oct33°26°103 mm
  11. Nov31°26°135 mm
  12. Dec30°25°213 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Amazon rainforest.

Large rainforest in South America

Amazon rainforest is a forest in Venezuela.

Seen from space, 29% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 80% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

518 species have been recorded around it: 256 plants, 0 fungi, 251 birds and 11 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Brownbeard rice, Couma utilis and Pontederia crassipes.

The best time to walk is from June to July.

Amazon CIAT (2)
Neil Palmer/CIAT · CC BY-SA 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Amazon rainforest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1picnic sites within 4 kmTapiri
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmAmazon Juma Travel agency & Tourism
  • 7car parks within 3 km
  • 74places to stay within 10 kmLord Manaus Hotel, Hotel Diplomata, Líder Hotel Manaus and 71 more
  • 7restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Amazon rainforest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Lago Janauari1.9 km² · 5.0 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Rio Negro2,250 km · 30,000 m³/s

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

THE BIG MINE IN AMAZON RAINFOREST BRAZIL - panoramio
James Martins · CC BY 3.0
Deforestation of Rainforest
Daniele Gidsicki · CC BY 2.0
31.08.2022-LULA EM MANAUS - Na floresta, Lula discute Desenvolvimento Sustentável - 52324473237
Lula Oficial · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q177567) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species5,341 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesLakeyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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